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first performance of five new songs by Richard Strauss, which; the composar has promised to ac-

PROGRAMME OF THE BERLIN company personally on the plaino.

SEASON.

[By Max Marschalk.)

Dr. Paul Eger, at one time Direc tor of the Municipal theatres in Darmstadt and in Hamburg, s the organizer of the festival per- formances. It is due to his initia- tive that the Milan Scala has been The town of Berlin, is planning persuaded to make a foreign tour. "Season" in great style which is it has only once, dono so before, to begin about May 20th, and in Paris many years ago, Dr. is calculated to last. about four of succeeding in persuading the Eger has not yet abandoned hopaj weeks. This Season is an Innova State Opera in Vienna to take part tion for Berlin. The object of it in the Berlin Senson. Great things s to provide the great host of have been planned and the variety foreign visitors who spend some to be offered la extraordinary. time in Gormany and Berlin inof, the greatest conductors, men The circumstance that. a number May and June as imposing a sur- with

international reputations,

vey as possible of what Berlin can will work side by side, each in offer as a musical and theatrical the department in which he bas centre. It is naturally also the greatest importance for the tunity which will be afforded of

of earned his fame, and the oppor artists and for the artistic institu. comparing the capacity of the tions in Berlin to obtain this great German conductors with survey once a year, to be stimulat- that of Arturo Toscanini whose ed. by festival performance once a fame is almost a legend, rendor the year to maximum efforts and to Berlin Season voluable in itself in bo compelled to rise above the everyday level.

With a view to rendering the Berlin Season of 1929 particularly attractive to the international public and at the same time meet- ing a long cherished but no far unfulfilled wish of the inhabitants of Berlin; the services of Arture Toacanini, whom many regard as the greatest conductor of our times, have been secured for a series of five or six performances hy the opera company from the Scala, Milan, which will take place: between the 22nd and 31st May.

Toscanini will bring the whole of

the soloists from the Scala with him and also the orchestra which numbers 110 executants, the powerful chorus and part of the famous corps de ballet.. It is not yet quite certain what works will. be given but the following operas by Verdi have been mentioned: "Rigoletto," "Il Trovatore," "La Forza del Destino" and "Falstaf" Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammer- moor" and Puccini's "Manon" are! also being considered and the new opera "Monaco Geraldo" by Pizetti will perhaps be put on. Particu lar interest attaches to the fact that the Milan Scala are sending their entire scenery and effects to Berlin.

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special way and give it an im portance which has hardly over attached to a similar undertaking. It should be added that all the krentest vocalists in Berlin and in Germany will be heard at the festival performances.

marked, have been planned and Great things, as has been re- the expectations of the Interna- tional public will doubtless bef

greut.

The three Berlin Opera houses will give a Wagnor Cycle, a Mozart Cyclo and a Strauss Cycle, all with fresh scenery. Richard, Strauss, whom we consider to be Germany's most representative mualeian, will conduct the Strauss Cycle in person. In addition to Richard Strauss the Berlin Direc- tora General of Music, Leo Blech, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer and Brunno Walter will also take part in carrying out the programine which is conceived on a really large scale. The festival perform- ances of opera will be opened on the 19th May with "Die Meister- singer" which has long been pre- ferred for opening nights. A first performance is also to be included) in the programme, the work aclec- ted for production at the begin- ning of June being the comic opera "Nouca vom Tage" (News of the Day) by Paul Hindemith, one of the most gifted of the younger German composers, who has attracted attention with his opera "Cardillac." Towards the end of the Season "Carnival In Rome" by Johann Strauss will be. rovived. This is an carly work of the Austrian composer, written before the operetta "Die Fleder-

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The programme of performances on the concert platform will not, lay behind that for the operatic] stage. The series will be opened with a Beethoven Night, when Wilhelm Furtwangler will conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra and the final evening will also be Furtwangler Concert. Brund Walter, Gustav Mahler's disciple and friend and a leading interpre- ter of his works, will conduct "Das Li von der Erde." Igor Stravin- sky will be the soloist at a con- cert devoted to modern music and conducted by Otto Klemperer. In order to give the foreign visitors an impression of what Berlin can offer in the way of choral singing, Georg Schumann will produce the Mass In B. flat minor with his famous Singakademie Choir, while two large popular concerts will provide an opportunity for tho celebrated Berlin Teacher's-Sing- ing Union, the Berlin choral so- cieties and the Berlin Workmen's Singers' League are giving proof of the care bestowed on male com- mubily singing,

Palaco Arrangements. Finally concerts are to be given In the Golden Gallery of the beautifully situated Charlotten- burg Palace with programmes as far as possible in accord with the rococo character of the splendid room. A flute concerto by Fro- derick the Great will conjure up picture of olden days. At a rocbed concert with a chamber orchestra a symphony by Fre- dorick the Great, a ronde with cembalo, and a symphony by Mo zart will be performed. It fa'pro- posed to include in this group of concerts in the Golden Gallery Che

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